TITLE 50. HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 9. RIGHTS OF THE TERMINALLY ILL ACT

Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry

Statewide Education And Outreach Program

50-9-505. Statewide education and outreach program. (1) The attorney general shall design, maintain, and administer a public education and outreach program to be conducted throughout the state pertaining to advance health care planning and end-of-life health care decisionmaking.

(2) The program must be designed to:

(a) increase the public's awareness of the importance of planning for end-of-life health care;

(b) improve the public's understanding of the various health situations that an individual may face if the individual is unable to express the individual's health care wishes; and

(c) explain the need for readily available legal documents that express an individual's health care wishes.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 447, L. 2005.